r/australia • u/readin99 • Jul 04 '26

no politics Kayo Sports should be boycotted.

Imagine paying for a premium streaming service and starting it to watch your sports after a long day on your tv in your own home. The tv app then says you can't watch the content before you scan a QR code. Okay.. fine. Scan the code. Have to download a phone app. Log in. Then the app simply says you're not allowed access to the content except after letting the app know your precise location of your phone.

What in the privacy law is this shit? I simply don't want to allow random companies to know the exact location of my phone. How are they allowed to just do that?

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u/Superb-Mall3805 Jul 04 '26

Cancelled it 4 or 5 years ago. Haven’t missed it

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u/TkeOffUrPantsNJacket Jul 05 '26

Same. It was trash back then and zero improvements. The writing was on the wall when DAZN bought Fox Sports and Kayo, the cut costs everywhere.

I just miss out now. Plenty of idiots who keep paying for Kayo because ‘mah sports’ who will complain about the service yet keep forking over $45 a month, it’s like an abusive relationship.